Public Ubiquitous Computing Systems: Lessons from the e-Campus Display Deployments

Lessons learned from building and deploying three experimental public display systems have general app to many types of public ubicomp deployments. Lancaster University´s e-Campus project is exploring the creation of large-scale networked displays as part of a public, interactive pervasive computing environment. For the project, we built and deployed three experimental display systems that vary in technology, location, scale, and user community, and they´ve given us a rich set of experiences. We´ve summarized 13 lessons learned from this experience. The lessons certainly apply to researchers planning similar deployments. We also believe they will generalize to other public ubicomp installations. The e-Campus project is embarking on a major new set of deployments. We´re using these lessons to help guide our work and we believe the lessons learned will be valuable to all researchers deploying ubicomp systems in public spaces